Course Design Community Health Nursing

C919

Course Title: The Role of the BSN Nurse in Promoting Community Health

Part A

BSN Nurses play an undeniably crucial role in efforts to promote and sustain community health. To a large extent, community health happens to be focused on groups, families, as well as individuals within a specific geographical area. To be able to ensure that the healthcare needs of the said groups, families, as well as individuals are best served, BSN nurses ought to be equipped with certain skills and competencies. This course comes in handy in this regard. A total of 8 module topics were developed. These are inclusive of: definition and nature of community health nursing (topic 1); objectives of community health nursing (topic 2); stakeholders in community health (topic 3); the role BSN nurses play in the promotion of community health (topic 4); community-based nursing interventions (topic 5); addressing challenges encountered in community nursing (topic 6); the relevance of cultural competence in community health nursing (topic 7); and review of key topics (topic 8). Effort has been made to align the course with the Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Practice. In basic terms, the essentials, as the American Association of Colleges of Nursing – AACN (2008) indicates, seek to “transform baccalaureate nursing education by providing the curricular elements and framework for building the baccalaureate nursing curriculum for the 21st century” (3). This is more so the case in relation to essential VI (interprofessional communication and collaboration for improving patient health outcomes) and essential VII (clinical prevention and population health). In as far as essential VI is concerned, students will in this case be familiarized with cross-cultural skills (i.e. topic 7) with an intention of ensuring that they can be able to engage other professionals from diverse cultural backgrounds in meaningful formats. When it comes to essential VII, students will be equipped with the capabilities and competencies to enable them to effectively assess community attitudes as well as values and beliefs about health so as to devise the most relevant interventions (topic 5). Towards this end, those who successfully complete the course will be able to not only embrace their role in the promotion of community health, but also effectively function as part of a larger group of stakeholders in this realm. It is also important to note that students will be able to deploy viable community-based nursing interventions as well as anticipate and competently address the various challenges they could encounter in the course of fulfilling their mandate in community health nursing.

Part B

Module 1: Definition and nature of community health nursing

Module 2: Objectives of community health nursing

Module 3: Stakeholders in community health

Part C

Module 1: Definition and nature of community health nursing

Upon completion of this module, students will be able to;

1. Discuss what community health nursing comprises of

2. Describe the history and evolution of community health nursing

3. Explain the place of community health nursing in the contemporary society

Module 2: Objectives of community health nursing

Upon completion of this module, students will be able to;

1. Describe the role of community health nursing in the prevention of diseases

2. Describe the role community health nursing plays in the control of diseases

3. Identify the relevance of community health nursing in the provision of specialized services

Module 3: Stakeholders in community health

Upon completion of this module, students will be able to;

1. Express the need to perceive community health nursing as a collaborative exercise

2. Identify the role of the various stakeholders in community health nursing

3. Illustrate the various strategies that could be used in the creation of a collaborative work environment

Part D

Module 1: Definition and nature of community health nursing

Upon completion of this module, students will be able to:

1. Describe community health nursing and chart its history and evolution.

2. Discuss the concept of community health nursing in the context of clearly defined communities

Module 2: Objectives of community health nursing

Upon completion of this module, students will be able to:

1. Establish the relevance of community health in not only the prevention, but also control of disease

2. Employ positive change in actual clinical settings via the alignment of the stated objectives with practice goals.

Module 3: Stakeholders in community health

Upon completion of this module, students will be able to:

1. Identify the need for active collaboration with other professionals in the community health realm.

2. Apply a wide range of interprofessional collaboration strategies in a meaningful and effective manner so as to form teams that work together to promote the health and wellbeing of groups, families, as well as individuals within a specific geographical area.

Part E

Module 1: Definition and nature of community health nursing

Content Overview: Topics

1. What is community health nursing?

2. Foundations of community health

a) History

b) Evolution

3. The difference between population health and community health

4. Categories of people served by community health nurses

Module 2: Objectives of community health nursing

Content Overview: Topics

1. Principles of community health nursing

2. Health protection in the realm of community health

3. Health promotion in the realm of community health

4. Community health practice tools

a) Health education

b) Community Organizing

c) Epidemiology

5. Factors impacting community health

a) Individual factors

b) Community factors

c) Cultural and social factors

d) Physical factors

Module 3: Stakeholders in community health

Content Overview: Topics

1. Key players in community health: healthcare practitioners, local government, patients, social health groups, charities, etc.

2. Collaboration in community health nursing

3. The BSN nurse as a key player in community health

4. Opportunities for multidisciplinary collaboration in community health

5. Strategies to promote interdisciplinary collaboration

Part F

Module 1: Definition and nature of community health nursing

Book(s)

1. Sines, D., Saunders, M. & Forbes-Burford, J. (Eds.). (2013). Community Health Care Nursing. John Wiley & Sons.

2. Saucer, K. & Janes, S. (Eds.). (2014). Community Health Nursing: Caring for the Public’s health. Jones & Bartlett Publishers.

Website(s)

1. Lehman, U. & Sanders, D. (2007). Community Health Workers: What do We Know about them? The State of the Evidence on Programmes, Activities, Costs and Impact on Health Outcomes of Using Community health Workers. https://www.who.int/hrh/documents/community_health_workers.pdf

2. Nurse Key (2021). History of Public Health and Public and Community Health Nursing. https://nursekey.com/history-of-public-health-and-public-and-community-health-nursing/

3. World health Organization (2010). A Framework for Community Health Nursing Education. https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstreams/909338/retrieve

Module 2: Objectives of community health nursing

Peer-Reviewed Article(s)

1. Kulbok, P.A. (2012). Evolving Public Health Nursing Roles: Focus on Community Participatory Health Promotion and Prevention: Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 17(2).

2. Muntean, A., Tomita, M. & Ungureanu, R. (2013). The Role of the Community Nurse in Promoting Health and Human Dignity: Narrative Review Article. Iranian Journal of Public Health, 42(10), 1077-1084.

Book(s)

1. Lundy, K.S. & Janes, S. (2009). Community Health Nursing: Caring for the Public’s Health. Jones & Bartlett Learning.

2. Naomi, E. & Pamela, K. (2018). Advanced Public and Community Health Nursing Practice: Population Assessment, Program Planning, and Evaluation. Springer Publishing.

3. Sines, D., Saunders, M. & Forbes-Burford, J. (Eds.). (2013). Community Health Care Nursing. John Wiley & Sons.

Website(s)

1. Vera, M. (2013). 12 Principles of Community Health Nursing. https://nurseslabs.com/community-health-nursing-principles/

Module 3: Stakeholders in community health

Peer-Reviewed Article(s)

1. Foolandi, M. (2015). The Role of Nurses in Community Awareness and Preventive Health. Int. J Community Based Nurse Midwifery, 3(4), 328-329.

2. Proenca, E.J. (2003). A Stakeholder Approach to Community Health Management. Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, 26(1), 10-34.

Book(s)

1. Harris, M.J. (2016). Evaluating Public and Community Health Programs. John Wiley & Sons

Website(s)

1. Health Research & Educational Trust. (2016). Engaging

patients and communities in the community health needs assessment process. https://www.aha.org/system/files/2018-01/Engaging-patients-communities-health-needs-assmt.pdf